| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: At any rate they are yours, he said, did you not admit that?
I did, I said; what is going to happen to me?
And are not these gods animals? for you admit that all things which have
life are animals; and have not these gods life?
They have life, I said.
Then are they not animals?
They are animals, I said.
And you admitted that of animals those are yours which you could give away
or sell or offer in sacrifice, as you pleased?
I did admit that, Euthydemus, and I have no way of escape.
Well then, said he, if you admit that Zeus and the other gods are yours,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: finery you want! And they fly back at me: ''Why isn't Princess Mary
thankful to go about in her old rags, then, an' have nothing! Folks
like HER get van-loads, an' I can't have a new spring coat. It's a
damned shame. Princess! Bloomin' rot about Princess! It's munney as
matters, an' cos she's got lots, they give her more! Nobody's givin' me
any, an' I've as much right as anybody else. Don't talk to me about
education. It's munney as matters. I want a new spring coat, I do, an'
I shan't get it, cos there's no munney...'' That's all they care about,
clothes. They think nothing of giving seven or eight guineas for a
winter coat--colliers' daughters, mind you--and two guineas for a
child's summer hat. And then they go to the Primitive Chapel in their
Lady Chatterley's Lover |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: suggested, that Peace stole a photograph of herself out of a
locket, intending to make some improper use of it. At last,
in desperation, the Dysons moved to Banner Cross. From the day
of their arrival there until the murder, Mrs. Dyson never saw
Peace. She denied altogether having been in his company the
night before the murder. The letters were "bare forgeries,"
written by Peace or members of his family to get her into their
power.
Against the advice of all her friends Mrs. Dyson had come back
from America to give evidence against Peace. To the detective
who saw her at Cleveland she said, "I will go back if I have to
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
